Bryce Dallas Howard

“Kevin Kline is an honorary Brit.”

“Everything about doing 'Jurassic World' was a dream come true.”

“There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.”

“I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or...”

“I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.”

“I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.”

“I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.”

“I'm a night owl.”

“I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.”

“Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.”

“I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!”

“Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.”

“I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a...”

“You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it's the most intense it can ever be.' Then you have a child, and it's like - it's hug...”

“Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters...”

“My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.”

“I'm a little superstitious.”

“Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny.”

“There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing the...”

“'50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.”